If necessary, you can review the the IPlan Assignment sheet here. Complete the process shown in the diagram below by following the steps and answering the questions for each step.
a. Review your journal entries RJ1 and RJ3 for your original assessment of your needs and strengths as well as the needs of your students.
b. Complete the Teaching Self Assessment based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give. Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement.
a. Review your school improvement document(s). (If you forgot them, download a SALT visit.)
b. Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Time Management
Lessons more prepped, students should take more away
2.
Facilitate Inquiry
Help them think more like scientists
Try to decrease evidence of school tracking system
3.
Content Knowledge/Keeping Sharp
4.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
There are several things that I, as a teacher, can certainly improve upon. I feel that if a teacher isn't constantly trying to better themselves in multiple ways, than they are wasting their time. I feel as though I need to construct more inquiry based systems which in turn, can help reduce the evidence of a strong tracking system (RIBTS 5.4, 5.5). Coventry High School is know for it's strong tracking system which essentially puts a student on a particular path and could quite possibly doom them to be a part of this path forever and ever.
If a teacher is just going to go along with what the tracking system is telling them they should be doing, i.e. don't challenge these students too much because they are lower level students, then all they are doing is supporting the tracking system and not pushing those students to be the best that they can. There can, however, easily be drawbacks because if the student is challenged too much they will give up. One thing that I've learned throughout my life up to this point is that in an attempt to answer a problem the best solution is not one choice or the other, but often a combination of the two. I like to call this finding "a happy medium". If I as a teacher can find happy medium's where the students will be challenged a little but not too much, then I think the students can not only succeed but succeed at a higher level than they may be used to.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
There are several ways that I can achieve this goal. The way that I feel would be most effective is attending some sort off workshop or class that would enhance my understanding of the definition of inquiry and how to facilitate it. There are certainly many that are offered all over the country by accredited schools and universities that would meet the criteria set forth per the iPlan. Another way I could approach my professional development goal is involvement in collaborative/partnership activities. By getting involved and staying active in a professional network, I would be participating in learning activities on local, state, or national levels relating to the Professional Development Goal I have stated previously.
EDC 484 IPlan Synthesis
If necessary, you can review the the IPlan Assignment sheet here. Complete the process shown in the diagram below by following the steps and answering the questions for each step.
a. Review your journal entries RJ1 and RJ3 for your original assessment of your needs and strengths as well as the needs of your students.
b. Complete the Teaching Self Assessment based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give. Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement.
a. Review your school improvement document(s). (If you forgot them, download a SALT visit.)
b. Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
There are several things that I, as a teacher, can certainly improve upon. I feel that if a teacher isn't constantly trying to better themselves in multiple ways, than they are wasting their time. I feel as though I need to construct more inquiry based systems which in turn, can help reduce the evidence of a strong tracking system (RIBTS 5.4, 5.5). Coventry High School is know for it's strong tracking system which essentially puts a student on a particular path and could quite possibly doom them to be a part of this path forever and ever.If a teacher is just going to go along with what the tracking system is telling them they should be doing, i.e. don't challenge these students too much because they are lower level students, then all they are doing is supporting the tracking system and not pushing those students to be the best that they can. There can, however, easily be drawbacks because if the student is challenged too much they will give up. One thing that I've learned throughout my life up to this point is that in an attempt to answer a problem the best solution is not one choice or the other, but often a combination of the two. I like to call this finding "a happy medium". If I as a teacher can find happy medium's where the students will be challenged a little but not too much, then I think the students can not only succeed but succeed at a higher level than they may be used to.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
There are several ways that I can achieve this goal. The way that I feel would be most effective is attending some sort off workshop or class that would enhance my understanding of the definition of inquiry and how to facilitate it. There are certainly many that are offered all over the country by accredited schools and universities that would meet the criteria set forth per the iPlan. Another way I could approach my professional development goal is involvement in collaborative/partnership activities. By getting involved and staying active in a professional network, I would be participating in learning activities on local, state, or national levels relating to the Professional Development Goal I have stated previously.Post your PD Plan to True Outcomes